by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 10, 2026 | Neuroscience and the Brain for Therapists, Phenomenology and Existential Psychology
In 1927, a French novelist wrote a letter to the most famous doctor in Vienna. Romain Rolland had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He had spent years studying the Indian mystic Ramakrishna, and he wanted to tell Sigmund Freud that psychoanalysis had missed...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 6, 2026 | Evidence Based Practice in Therapy
Are we doing science to find out what is true, or are we doing science to produce numbers? Those are not the same job. At some point we quietly switched from the first one to the second one and kept the same name on the door. We built an enormous machine for...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Aug 6, 2026 | Evidence Based Practice in Therapy
We Throw Out the Patients Who Get Better Before a great many antidepressant trials formally begin, there is a phase that never makes it into the press release. Everyone who enrolls is given a sugar pill for a week or two. Nobody is told. The people who improve are...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 29, 2026 | Cults and High Control Group Psychology
By Joel Blackstock, LICSW-S — Taproot Therapy Collective The Folding Table There was a folding table in the student center. There is always a folding table. I was in college, and the people at the table were not strange. That’s the first thing to understand....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jul 23, 2026 | Psychology of Film and TV, Psychology of Media and Culture
There is a moment near the end of Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of The Odyssey when Matt Damon’s Odysseus finally stands in his own hall, the suitors dead around him, his wife in front of him, and nothing happens inside him. No recognition scene. No...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 28, 2026 | Psychology of Buildings and Architecture, Uncategorized
☰ Navigation Introduction Neuro-Architecture Primal Foundations The Republic Romantic & Victorian Authenticity & Civic Grandeur The Machine Age Postmodern & Ecological The Digital Frontier Conclusion Questions & Answers Dictionary of the Psychology of Architecture The...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 27, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
As Goes Social Work, So Go the Doctors The dismantling of one profession’s evidence base is not really an attack on that profession. It is a demonstration. The same machinery is being built for nursing and for medicine, and the thing it is built to remove is the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 27, 2026 | History of Psychotherapy
From Freud, Jung, and Adler to the Somatic Fourth Wave Every school of therapy is a defense structure. It forms to manage an unbearable anxiety, it hardens into doctrine, and it eventually meets the limit of what it was built to avoid looking at. The history of the...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 25, 2026 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Micro-nutrition and Vitamins for Mental Health
TAPROOT THERAPY COLLECTIVE Master Hub Page: "The Microglial Revolution" Patient-education framing. Divi Custom HTML / Code module ready. Paste this entire block into a single Divi Code module. Scoped under .tp-microglia so it will not affect the rest of the theme....
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jun 24, 2026 | Legal Updates for Therapists and Psychologists
What the 2026 ASWB Exam Changes Mean for Social Workers: A Clinician’s Breakdown On Monday, August 3, 2026, the test that stands between a social work degree and a social work license changes for the first time since 2018. If you are preparing to sit for the...
